tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post8985017985259539244..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Butterfly Dream: Winter Narcissus Haiku by Beverly Acuff MomoiChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-76343051323702706762013-03-29T07:59:39.232-04:002013-03-29T07:59:39.232-04:00Beverly's haiku is a beautifully-crafted "...Beverly's haiku is a beautifully-crafted "Ichibutsu Shitate" (one-scene/image/theme/object haiku), a "single-object poem, which [focuses] on a single topic and in which the [haiku flows] smoothly from start to finish, without leap or gap found in the "composition poem" (that reads a poem with two juxtaposed images/topics...; "Traces of Dreams," p. 111). For more info. see To the Lighthouse: Re-examining the Concept and Practice of Cutting, http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/2013/02/to-lighthouse-re-examining-concept-and.html<br /><br />The symbolically rich jux. of "narcissus" and "reflection" and the emotionally effective use of a seasonal reference lift the poem up a notch.<br /><br /><br /><br />Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com